Former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko has signalled a return to office to form a coalition government after a poll triumph, urging pro-Western liberals to end fight and keep out a pro-Russian party.

Tymoshenko said on Sunday a coalition deal was "practically ready", but the poll outcome put her and other 2004 "Orange Revolution" leaders under pressure to deliver on reforms after pricing Ukraine from centuries of Russian domination, as per Reuters.

Voter disillusionment over "Orange" team splits and an economic slowdown hit the liberals and clearly helped Viktor Yanukovich's pro-Russian Regions Party win the largest share of the ballot in the parliamentary elections on Sunday.

But exit polls showed the liberals, who have set the former Soviet republic on a course to join the European mainstream, can still control parliament. Further talks between the liberals on a coalition were scheduled for 11:00 on Monday.

The exit polls gave Yanukovich's Regions Party 27-31%, the Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc 22-24% and President Viktor Yushchenko's Our Ukraine party about 15%. Preliminary results were not expected for two to three days.

The poll outcome was a double humiliation for Yushchenko, who beat Yanukovich in a presidential poll re-run after the December 2004 street protests and who later fell out with and sacked Tymoshenko, his former Orange Revolution comrade.

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